I can’t speak to that. I’ve visited a few communities that we’re having problems with exploding numbers of holiday homes back in the 90’s and it seemed that time sharing was not going on. I tried to rent a home to prolong my visit to the Isle of Wight and the holiday home owners uniformly acted as if I were gibbering at them in a diaper. They couldn’t understand why I thought they would trust a stranger in their homes. That combined with the fact that they don’t take a vacation there so much as use it on random weekends gives me the impression that it’s a tiny market.
Dawn French did a comedy set in Cornwall that had a running theme of feuds between holiday home owners and locals. That was back in 95 or so. These aren’t new problems. The longer problems go on without a solution the better a drastic solution like banning holiday homes seems.
Sounds like a British culture problem. Americans would be less likely to pass up the pecuniary benefit. The whole idea of timeshare is quite popular in America. You buy 1/26 of an interest in a property and then get the rights to use it for 2 weeks a year, etc.
And yes, if they want to be able to pop in any time they want, then they probably have to own it outright. Some properties can be partitioned and part of it rented, so that if the owner came the owner would still have quarters too.
British culture problem — I’ve never heard of such a complaint in America.
This even happens at the Jersey Shore where I had a second home for several years - even living permanently while my husband commuted into Manhattan - the ‘holiday makers’ and summer renters were awful! They acted like I was the visitor and they were the year-round resident. My favorite story is the summer weekend renter who couldn’t find a place to park on the street (my little town had no parking lots) and so drove into my neighbor’s driveway while she was at work and then disappeared into her rental apartment down the block.